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Mother Quotes
"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."
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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
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"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
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"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
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"I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother."
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"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."
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"My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York."
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"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
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"My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done."
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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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"If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower."
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"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."
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"My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
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"Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother."
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"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully."
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"Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum."
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"Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts."
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"Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance."
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"Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism."
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"I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience."
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"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."
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